On March 22, 1836, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark married Lieutenant Horatio Phillips Van Cleve a few...
Twin Cities Area
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Saint Paul Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Women’s City Club In St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Wilder Public Baths
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Robbinsdale Library
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Greater Minnesota
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Most of us wouldn’t consider a 13,000 square foot mansion situated on a six-acre wooded lot with...
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
One of my favorite stops lately was Fort Juelson in Otter Tail County. The site is located on the...
Exploring Sandstone
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Little Marais Inn
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Meyer School In St Augusta
Lost Highway 61
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Florence Town Hall
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
The Old School In Wolverton
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
District 48 School Near Delano
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Moving Old Hibbing
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Le Sueur Theater
Oxford Mill Ruin
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Historic Franconia
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Moderne New Ulm Library
Ruins of Sawyer School
State Theater In Hutchinson
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Green Lake Mounds
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Almelund Creamery
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Remembering Quadna Resort
The Duluth Homestead Project
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Welcome to Hanska
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Endion Depot In Duluth
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Hanover Bridge
The End of the Line in Currie
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
District 6 School in New Sweden
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Exploring Ottawa
Welcome To Dotson
Bend in the River Regional Park
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
The Milford Monument
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Hollywood Town Hall
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Welcome To Cobden
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Pierre Bottineau was born around 1817 near Pembina in the Red River region of what is now North...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Eloise Butler’s interest in the natural world began when her aunt taught her how to identify the...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...

